Patient-controlled epidural analgesia versus continuous epidural analgesia after total knee arthroplasty

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 471-476

  Silvasti, M ^a,b   Pitkanen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Analgesia, epidural; Continuous epidural analgesia, bupivacaine, fentanyl; Patient controlled epidural analgesia; Postoperative pain relief

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL DERIVATIVE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MOTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX PAIN; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ACETAMINOPHEN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTIEMETICS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BUPIVACAINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DROPERIDOL; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING;

EID: 0035085785     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2001.045004471.x     Document Type: Article

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